Richard Bosman

I came across Richard Bosman for the first time a few days ago on Instagram. Bosman’s work falls outside of contemporary movements. One other established artist comes to mind for me by the name of Tom Friedman who was big around the turn of the century, each one of Friedman’s singular works would make you laugh. That intellectual humor is really the only thread between Bosman (an illustrative painter) and Friedman (a cerebral sculptor).

I’m still trying to mentally come to grips with Bosmans work. I expect I will come back to this post a few more times to elaborate on this initial rough draft.

What I like about Bosman are his compositional elements, his absurd takes on our collective reality, and his leaning into exploring a subject as a series of explorations.

Just turn to this portfolio of Bosman’s work at https://www.stewartstewart.com/richard-bosman. There are about 70 works on this page that mostly fall into 4 series’. Over half of the works are masterclass